News

Victims of injustice speak out against unfair convictions

A survey of nearly 250 serving prisoners convicted under joint enterprise provisions has found evidence that black and minority ethnic people are serving long prison sentences because of unfair and racist criminal justice practices.

The survey results are contained in a new report published today by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.

The report – Dangerous associations – tracks the complex process of criminalisation...

25 January 2016
Publication

Dangerous associations: Joint enterprise, gangs and racism

This report by Patrick Williams and Becky Clarke of Manchester Metropolitan University offers a troubling exposé of the use of collective punishment against black and minority ethnic people, based on racism, rumour and innuendo.

25 January 2016
Comment

A call to ALL women

There is a growing commitment within a group of critical criminologists at Manchester Metropolitan University, to recognising, exposing, analysing and campaigning around social injustice and...